Corporate tax avoidance and stock price crash risk: Firm-level analysis

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 639-662

  Kim, Jeong Bon ^a   Li, Yinghua ^b   Zhang, Liandong ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency theory; Crash risk; Extreme outcome; Governance; Tax avoidance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954606115     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2010.07.007     Document Type: Article

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